Seriously, how did any of us function before templates? I used to measure out the margins for every single sheet, redrawing the company logo with basic lines. Even the little project info boxes, client name, drawing number, all one clumsy text entry at a time. It felt like building the same cardboard box over and over just to put something inside it.

My old boss at the body shop in Dayton always said you could feel a respray with your hand. We missed a ton of filler on a trade-in because of that advice. Honestly, a decent gauge is the only real way to know what you're working with before you start sanding. It saves way more than three hundred bucks by avoiding one bad repair.

Yeah, the back foot support thing @wyatt513 mentioned is key. I found putting a blanket or pillow on my lap first gives them a better landing spot they trust. It makes them way more likely to stick around instead of jumping off right away.

Is it really that big of a deal after 400 episodes?

My cousin's freelance design work vanished overnight last year.